True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
D.B. Cooper
On November 24, 1971, a very unusual crime took place - on board of a passenger plane, an unknown man demanded ransom and two parachutes, and otherwise he will detonate the bomb in his briefcase...
Zodiac killer
The Zodiac killer is an unknown serial killer that was operating in California between 1968 and 1974. He killed 5 people and injured 2 more, at least those are confirmed victims of the Zodiac...
JFK assassination
American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...
Great mysteries
Mary Celeste
In 1872, in the middle of the Atlantic, the ship Marie Celeste was found abandoned by the crew. The ship was undamaged, there were no signs of any kind of violence on board, and the...
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
The Somerton Man
In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...
Controversial theories
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...
Smolensk air crash
During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...
Pearl Harbor attack
The Attack on Pearl Harbor dragged the United States into the World War 2. It was the last straw that left Americans no choice but to join the Allies and declare war on Japan. At least...
9/11 attacks
Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...
Unexplained phenomena
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
Ghost stories
Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...
High Rock event
In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Crime and mystery movies
Zodiac 2007
Based on a true story of a serial killer that attacked people around the San Francisco Bay in the 1960s.
Fear of Water 2011
Small town policeman gets his first ever murder case - the 18-year-old daughter of the mayor has been raped and killed.
Guilty 2015
When 14-year-old girl is found dead in her bed the missing servant becomes a prime suspect. When is found dead as well the parents of the girl are in the spotlight of media.
Pulp 1972
A pulp fiction author is tangled into a web of lies when he is offered a job as a ghostwriter.